From the monthly archives:

July 2009

…if it looks you in the eye and you look back

July 21, 2009

So my first thought when I looked up from my pitchfork full of hay was, “I asked him to help me a few minutes ago, what is he doing?”  The second thought: “Man, that’s gonna itch.”  Then finally I broke free from the inner critic and saw what was before me with open eyes.
A [...]

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When No is Yes

July 20, 2009

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One of the most interesting part of daily living is sorting through tasks and opportunities, discerning the path one should take.  But should is a tricky word.  Do we ever really know if going a different way would have been better or worse?Are there not problems where we can expect more than one [...]

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Summer Reverie…

July 19, 2009

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Reverie has been downgraded in modern parlance to day dreaming.  As one of those students who was constantly brought back to task by the teacher for mentally wandering off  out the window and beyond the trees outside the classroom, I can attest first hand to the impact of the oft [...]

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Weaving Life through Divides

July 18, 2009

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I’ve had the chance to revisit in memory, artifact and in body, various passages of my life during the past year. And often our dreams are linked to past events.  If we follow the markers the dream render, often the lesson within is extremely relevant to the situations unfolding today.
Next weekend [...]

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Picking Wild Blues

July 17, 2009

I went into my son’s room and woke him at 5:30 am this morning. The last two weeks of July are blueberry season in these hills.  Each day we will wake early and head out with jars to pick at sunrise. The nearby forest preserve lands surrounding Crystal Lake are the home of thousands of [...]

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Wrapping up year one…

July 16, 2009

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So year one ends tonight and its time to get a sense of what kind of traction has accrued.  So below is an overview of this publishing effort by the numbers, noting that I’ve stuck to my idea about cloud publishing.   What follows is a synopsis of all the activity [...]

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The Role of the Artist

July 15, 2009

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I often joked when visiting a certain southeastern Connecticut city that the arts community there was made up of “posers.” I never really developed my position, though it was an intuition that I was certain of.  Then today I stumbled upon some clarity in the following passage:
“The normal man can follow the [...]

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Drawing Lines

July 14, 2009

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I’ve been thinking about how our sense of property is so clearly a reflection of our collective identification with the ego. Land ownership is rather novel in what it does to our relationship to the world. The surveyor verifies certain measurements that define the limits of what one can [...]

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Lessons from the Grill

July 12, 2009

“…a symbolism of cooking which parallels the vision of Zosimos, who saw, in the “bowl” of the altar, people being transformed in boiling water.” Carl Jung, Symbols of Transformation, CW 5, par. 200.
When we commit ourselves to the analogical mode, it’s funny how an unexpected insight finds relevance way over in a different part of [...]

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Probing some “what if’s?”

July 11, 2009

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As I approach the one year mark in this space, I think it’s important to spend some time in a prospective mode (Yes, I know, yesterday’s post was focused on memory and now I’m flipping things forward).
Much of prospective visioning is tied to intentionality.  The ability to bring things into [...]

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